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The Lean EDGE
The idea of the Lean EDGE is to bring together an all-star cast of lean authors who share their thinking and engage in dialogues about key issues. Recent contributors include Jamie Flinchbaugh, Art Smalley, Daniel T. Jones, Michael Ballé, Mike Rother, Steven Spear, Mark Graban, Jeff Liker, and Jean Cunningham.
Art Smalley has been showing and explaining concepts from the original Toyota book about the Toyota Production System, most recently in A Continuing Definition Problem. I always rely upon Art to identify Toyota principles that have been misunderstood over the years, especially as concepts meant to apply to efficiency in production operations are extrapolated to the whole organization. Here he discusses Toyota's approach to training people, based on his own experience at the company.
Pascal Dennis reflects upon value as opposed to waste in Aim for Delightful Value . He reminds us about the Kano model of value, in which delight is the third dimension. And how do you determine if an activity like play is going to lead to the delight of Walt Disney animators producing a Pinocchio or Apple's designers developing the iPad? It might look like waste, but is it?
Most of us don't have time to read all the books by all these authors, so we get to sample quite a range of their thinking. If we need to dig deeper, the books can be purchased through the website on Amazon.
I'm a bit disappointed that comments on the blog seem to be disabled. It makes it more awkward for the contributors to keep a discussion organized into a thread, and I can't add opinions or questions. Even so, I picked the Lean Edge for the carnival because of the authoritativeness of the authors and the high quality of the information they share. It shouldn't be missed.
Design Thinking
|Tim Brown
Looking over Tim Brown's shoulder is too good an opportunity to miss. One recent post, Checks and Balances, was a cogitation over a friend's question: Why can we design huge buildings with only rare failures, but not a reliable economic system? Brown wonders how we can apply design thinking principles to abstract and intangible things as well as physical objects. And he offers a few lines of inquiry for how to someday do it.
In Design Nations, he ponders about what it takes to provide an innovation infrastructure, and how countries like Finland and Singapore have made strides in that direction. "I have been wondering whether top down government policy is what really makes the difference or whether instead there are emergent characteristics that determine a nation or region's success in the global innovation economy." Does Brown have answers? More often he poses questions in a way we may not have thought about before. And isn't that how new thinking is often generated? Posts are short and pithy, so this blog is well worth adding to your RSS feeds or email subscriptions. You can read them quickly and not take a big chunk out of your day. And because of Tim Brown's broad followership, comments are many and insightful. I'd like to see more of our lean thinkers' names showing up there.
Pascal Van Cauwenberghe is a Belgian consultant who says he tries to solve more problems than he creates, and transform work into play. He teaches extreme programming (XP) to development teams and customers with the XP Game. A recent post shows an example of his innovative work -- a Business Value Model that teams can use to keep projects focused on the reasons the business exists, not the way they perform functions. For me, looking at posters covered with sticky notes is a fascinating way to see into how people work and think. In this case, Pascal shows and quickly describes each model, which are amazingly different considering that they started with the same exercise. Then he adds, "To make it perfect…" a few quick coach-style comments.
I like it that Pascal gives us a diary of the evolving definition of business value and how he finds venues to try out the games. These are not seminars or workshops, but prototyping sessions that allow his own team to develop the next iteration of the learning experience. That's agile development in action.
In the lean world, we're only tangentially exposed to agile and XP. Those who are married to lean doctrine may find fault with this convergent evolutionary cycle in IT development, but I think that's a mistake. Now that recognition that lean needs to be applied in IT, rather than working around it, we need more than ever to promote dialog between the two worlds. That's why you should subscribe to this blog (RSS only).
Set aside learning time
What if you subscribed to all the blogs in this year's Management Improvement Carnival? You'd do nothing but read blogs. I manage this problem by setting aside a certain amount of learning time each day, and catch up on a few blogs, make a few comments, and go on to other things. At least that's what I would do if I were more disciplined about my life. But give it a try, so you continuously expand your exposure to new ideas and shine a new light on your current problems.
Other Blog Carnival posts: Jamie Flinchbaugh reviewed Lean Reflections, and A Lean Journey by Tim McMahon, Tim wrote about Jamie Flinchbaugh's blog and Got Boondoggle by my friend Mike Wroblewski. Mike featured Lean For Everyone by Jon Wetzel in his Carnival selections. In Evolving Excellence, Kevin Meyer highlighted a few great blogs, including Gemba Panta Rei by Jon Miller Jon will tell us what he thinks about three blogs on Jan 7, including Daily Kaizen, by Lee Fried, one of my favorites. I'm honored to be part of the Management Improvement Carnival, and hope you'll look at Jamie Flinchbaugh's take on John Hunter's Curious Cat blog.
Does this roundup sound a bit recursive and inbred? Well, aside from the audiences each of us has developed, many of us have gotten to know and respect each other. In social networking terms, blogging -- and commenting -- has created strong virtual relationships. Thanks for being a Lean Reflections reader -- hope to see you become part of the circle with comments here and on the other great blogs in our Carnival.


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It's Reptile Week over at Bento Blog Network! In honour of this (and because The Muffin just loves turtles and tortoises), I decided to make a Tortoise Bento for her lunch tomorrow:
The Muffin has about two thirds of a banana (with a tortoise sticker), a handful of grapes with some dried blueberries thrown in (and a tortoise pick), vanilla yoghurt with green heart sprinkles, and a Tortoise.
The tortoise is a salami sandwich with cheese head, legs and shell markings.
I was very pleased with my little tortoise, and a bit sad that I had to wrap him up, because it squooshed him a bit. But I just don't trust bread to stay edible overnight unless it is plastic-wrapped, and I definitely don't have time to make this sort of thing in the morning!
I hope The Muffin likes him as much as I do! You can check out all the other Reptiles here.
Oh, and I am also linking this to What's For Lunch Wednesday at BentoLunch.net.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tortoise Bento
It's Reptile Week over at Bento Blog Network! In honour of this (and because The Muffin just loves turtles and tortoises), I decided to make a Tortoise Bento for her lunch tomorrow:
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Muffin Tin Monday - A Tale Of Two Dinners
It's Muffin Tin Monday again! And indeed it was last week too, but I never got around to posting the pictures. So here goes:
Last Week: River Theme (as
sprung on me at the last minute suggested by The Muffin)
You're going to need to engage your imagination for this one, folks.
Top Row: Cashew "stones"; Quiche "fish" (with pastry tail... I did warn you you'd need your imagination, right?); Marshmallow duck (which was, I suspect, the entire reason she came up with the "River Theme" in the first place).
Bottom Row: Banana & spinach "tree"; Round piece of quiche (representing picnics by the river); Pineapple "sand" with blueberry "balls to play with during the picnic".
Now before you say ANYTHING, I was not given complete creative control over this dinner - The Muffin came up with some of these ideas. I am Not Telling you which ones...
I did kind of like my tree though:
Probably more of a bush, really.
The After Shot:
She loved it, especially the marshmallow duck.
This Week: Dumplings
This is a dinner we all really enjoy. I regularly buy a variety of dumplings from our local Asian supermarket and keep them on hand in the freezer. Then when I don't have much time (or inclination) to cook dinner, we can fill our bamboo steamer up with dumplings, and in ten to fifteen minutes, dinner is served! This is much cheaper (and quicker, frankly) than buying takeaways. It's probably not a lot healthier, unfortunately, but hey - it's not like we have this for dinner every night. I also sometimes buy wonton wrappers and make my own wontons. This is a healthier option, as I can control what goes into them, but it obviously takes longer, so we do tend to buy quite a few pre-made ones. I'm hoping to make a lot more home-made ones soon!
Top Row: Pork & chive dumpling; Leek dumpling; Two jellybeans from her lolly stash.
Bottom Row: Chicken-filled steamed bun; Pork & chive dumpling; Ginger prawn dumpling.
The Misleading After Shot:
Misleading because a) she actually ate a lot more dumplings than in the first picture - we just kept refilling the cups until she'd had enough. And b) she wasn't keen on the steamed bun. This was the first time she had tried one of these, and she really only ate the filling out of half of it. You can see the discarded remains of that half, but what you can't see is the other (intact) half, which Husband ate.
To see what other kids had in their Muffin Tins this week, check out The Muffin Tin Mom's blog.
And if you're looking for a fun and yummy baking activity to do with your kids in the upcoming school holidays, you might like these Surprise Cookies!
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Labels: Muffin Tin Monday
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Surprise! (It's A Cookie)
Way, way back in the dark ages, before there was Abby Cadabby, or Baby Bear - hey, even before there was Elmo (gasp!), there was a series of books called "The Sesame Street Library". Fifteen volumes of Sesame Street awesomeness, and I had them all. If you can still get hold of these, I highly recommend picking a set up for your child. Or, you know, your inner child.
One of the features of each volume (or most of them) was a recipe - sometimes it was something different, like Big Bird's Banana Bread, but usually it was a cookie recipe presented by Cookie Monster. The first volume contained a basic cookie dough recipe (see below), and the other volumes used this dough in various ways. I would pore over these recipes in Rapturous Contemplation of All The Possibilities.
The weird thing is, despite the huge amount of baking I did with my mother as a child, I do not remember ever having made any of those cookies!
Anyway, the other cool thing about those books is, I Still Have Them. Yep, the very same ones my mother bought for me in the late seventies. Actually, they belong to The Muffin now. And we decided we would make some of those cookies. After some perusal, we were most taken with the idea of the Surprise Cookies.
It's actually a very cool idea. You start with a basic cookie dough. Obviously Cookie Monster uses his very own recipe, and so did we. However I see no reason why you couldn't use your favourite sugar cookie dough, as long as it's fairly stable. Cookie Monster's dough is a bit tougher than my usual sugar cookie recipe, and I think this probably helps to keep these cookies in one piece once they are baked. Anyway, once you have your dough of choice, roll it out thinly and cut it into circles. Then add some kind of filling to one circle...
... and add another circle on top. Pinch around the edges (note my five-year-old hand model)....
... and bake! These are very easy, and a great fun cooking activity to do with kids. The trick is to do lots of different fillings, and give them no identifying marks...
So the fun part is, when you pick up a cookie, you don't know what it contains...
The peanut butter choc chip were my favourites...
This filling was lucky I didn't eat it before I put it in the cookies...
Another surprise favourite was the tinned apple filling. Everyone who tried these listed it in their top two. Which brings me to the only problem with these cookies...
When it's this much fun finding out what's inside, noone can stop at one!
Cookie Monster's Cookie Dough
(thanks to Sesame Street & The Childrens Television Workshop)
Ingredients (exactly as listed in the book)
3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Modus Operandi (same as in the book, but abbreviated somewhat.)
Combine butter and sugar in a mixing bowl (the recipe says to use a fork. I used my mixer). Add eggs and vanilla and mix to combine. Add dry ingredients and mix to form a dough. Refrigerate for at least an hour before rolling out.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Rainbow Hearts Cake
You may have seen this cake by Bakerella - it's just gorgeous, and I think the single pink heart is a stroke of genius.
It's also massive. The Muffin and I decided we would like to make our own smaller version for my mother's sixtieth birthday (Happy Birthday Mum!). And as a little nod to St Patrick's Day, we thought we'd embrace the rainbow...
Here is the back view (or, What It Would Look Like Without The Colours):
Inside the top tier was dark chocolate mudcake. Inside the bottom tier, the rainbow continued...
I was pretty happy with how this turned out. I'm still a little unsure about my use of gold cachous around the bottom though... I had some vague idea about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but to be honest by that time it was one in the morning, so I refuse to be held accountable for any decisions made at that point.
What do you think? Should I have used white ones?
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Labels: Birthday Cakes
Monday, March 12, 2012
Muffin Tin Monday - Garden
Happy Muffin Tin Monday!
This week The Muffin requested a Garden theme for her tin:
Top Row: Carrot and cucumber birds; Yellow jube (from her loot bag stash).
Middle Row: Spanish chorizo rice; Frozen berries.
Bottom Row: Apple flower with small cracker biscuit centre; Spanish chorizo rice.
The Spanish chorizo rice was what Husband and I had for dinner, too. The Muffin chose this recipe from a selection of chorizo-based recipes I found on the internet. This recipe can be found here, and it was really yummy!
The After Shot:
The Muffin enjoyed the chorizo & rice dish, but (as usual) did not enjoy the cucumbers.
Check out what other kids ate today, over at The Muffin Tin Mom's blog!
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall...
... who's got the fairest lunch of all?
The Muffin's class was studying the letter P this week, and had a Pirates & Princesses dress-up day as part of the P-related fun.
The Muffin decided to go as Snow White, so I offered to do her a Snow White themed bento. Then I got a little carried away...
Snow White is made of rice balls - a round white one with nori hair for the head, a bodice-shaped one with a teeny bit of blue food colouring, skinny white ones for arms, and a white skirt-shaped one with cheese laid on top. Her sleeves are thick pieces of cheese, which I attempted to draw on with a red food marker (these never work well for me on cheddar). Her eyes and mouth are nori, her cheeks are painted with a tiny bit of tomato sauce, and the bow in her hair is rice paper coloured in with red food marker. I filled a heart-shaped silicon cup with ham, for her to eat with the rice balls.
The Muffin also had an apple (you Just Can't have Snow White without an apple!), some grapes, and a piece of fairy bread with a cracker on top. I made the fairy bread with silver sprinkles, and pink and yellow ones around the edges (for the frame). I told The Muffin "It's supposed to look like a Mirror". She looked at it oddly, and said "It doesn't at all". Don't you just love five-year-old honesty? (Actually I can't say I blame her on this one.)
To be honest, this lunch did take kind of forever to make, and I wouldn't do this kind of thing every day. But it was fun, and The Muffin loved it.
I'm linking this up to What's For Lunch Wednesday over at BentoLunch.net - why not go and check out what other lucky kids got for lunch this week?
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Muffin Tin Monday - Pancakes!
If you've read much at all of this blog, you'll know I love to bake. And actually, I quite like all cooking - and I'm not bad at most of it, but baking's my real thing.
Husband does not cook at all. Except for pancakes.
He is a Pancake God, I kid you not. And I'm not talking about any shake 'n' bake nonsense - oh no, my man makes pancakes from scratch. And my pancakes are nowhere near as good as his. Which is not a euphemism. Anyway, so where I'm going with this is, it's a public holiday here today, so Husband made pancakes for lunch. While he was busy mixing, pouring and flipping, The Muffin and I organised all the toppings, and popped them into a muffin tin:
Top Row: Ham; Natural yoghurt; Bananas; Mixed berries.
Middle Row: Grated cheese; Bananas; Leftover roast chicken; Grated cheese.
Bottom Row: Grated cheese; Natural yoghurt; Tinned apple; Apricot jam.
Also: I defaced the first pancake out of the pan by cutting the word "Monday" out of it with alphabet cookie cutters. This was The Muffin's suggestion, and she enjoyed sorting through all the alphabet cutters and finding the correct letters, and then laying the pancake letters out on the tin in the correct order.
There's no After Shot this time, because obviously the three of us shared the toppings tin, so it wouldn't be indicative of what The Muffin actually ate. She topped her first one with ham and cheese, and then had me pop it under the griller for her to melt the cheese. Then she had one with apple, bananas, berries, apricot jam and yoghurt, all mixed together. She picked it up, folded it in half and ate it like a massive taco - it was hilarious. And then, she ate most of the "Monday" letters dipped in maple syrup. Piggy!
(And in case you're wondering, yes we do normally enforce Better Table Manners Than That - but with Muffin Tin Monday, we tend to relax a little and let her have some fun with it).
To see what other lucky kids got to eat this week, check out The Muffin Tin Mom's blog.
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David Horvitz's For 2009, Idea Subscription__ (2009) is an email-based subscription list and tumblr blog of "open source" ideas for art projects, updated on an almost daily basis. Readers are encouraged to, "…realize, change, steal (you can't steal something that is free!), publish, claim as your own, destroy, become influenced by (either because you like them, or because you hate them so much that they give you better ideas), appropriate, spray paint, or anything else with them." The ideas are all whimsical and offbeat, such as leaving a pile of flour outside one's door for visitors to step in and photographing the resulting tracks (April 4th) to flying a kite in an area with dense advertising, such as Times Square, in order to serve as a distraction (March 13th). One of the ideas, dating from April 7th, has taken on a life of its own. Horvitz suggests that readers take photographs of their head in a freezer and upload it online using the tag "241543903". There is now a dedicated site for these images at 241543903.com as well as a flickr group, while a quick flickr search results in at least 80 photographs of people with their heads in a freezer. The emerging popularity of 241543903 is additional proof (as if any is needed) to support Cory Arcangel's statement from the March 2009 issue of Artforum that, "...you can put anything up on the Internet and there will be five people who want it, no matter how weird or obscure the information. The niche exists: someone's going to find you, period."
This is one of the best projects I've seen here in a while. I love the idea of using an arbitrary tag to mark content across the web. The project seems very down to earth, while deep conceptual meaning could definitely be applied to the project is has a simple and humorous beauty to it. The awkward, humorous pictures make the project instantly engaging.


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Tribal election polls may leave it up to absentee ballots
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Tribal election polls Saturday recorded 1,619 votes in the election races for seven Colville Business Council seats, many of which will be determined with the count of absentee ballots on Thursday.
In the Nespelem District, Ricky Gabriel polled narrowly ahead of Deb Louie 117-101 for Position 1. Neither is an incumbent but they've both held the job before.
For Nespelem Position 2, incumbent Andrew Joseph Jr. garnered 209 votes to Enid Wippel's 89.
There were 423 absentee ballots to count for the Nespelem District as of Tuesday afternoon. Ballots yet to be received and postmarked by June 15 can still be counted.
Jack Ferguson out-polled John Stensgar for the Keller District Postion 1 seat 57-32. Keller had 106 absentees in.
In Inchelium, Stevey Seymour got 109 votes to David Madera's 74 for Position 1. Allen Hammond led Lou Stone 134-46 for Position 2, with 187 absentee ballots to count.
In Omak, incumbents commanded healthy leads at the polls. Ernest "Sneena" Brooks led Shirley K. Charley 235-127. And Benny Marchand Jr gained 209 votes to Michael E. Marchand's 157. The tribal elections office had 248 absentee ballots from Omak to tally on Thursday.
The Colville Business Council is the governing body of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Half of its 14-member body are elected each year to represent more than 9,000 members.


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Bell Pepper Enchiladas
Peppers are probably the vegetable that gets used most frequently in my kitchen. My freezer's constantly stocked in case I discover a new recipe to try or want to whip up an old favorite again. In a way, my parents helped create this recipe. They always taught never to waste. So one day when my husband (I'm a stepmom to two girls, 18 and 15) and I had prepared a Mexican meal and had peppers, cheese, salsa and tortillas left over, these were the result! -Melissa Cowser, Greenville, Texas
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes4 enchiladas
- 2 medium green peppers, chopped
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 1/2 cup process cheese (Velveeta)
- 4 flour tortillas (8 inches), warmed
- 1 small jalapeno pepper, minced, optional
- 1 cup salsa, divided
- Additional shredded cheese, optional
- Sprinkle the green peppers and cheeses down the center of the tortillas; add jalapeno if desired. Roll up. Spread 1/2 cup salsa in a shallow baking dish. Place tortillas seam side down over salsa. Top with remaining salsa.
- Bake at 350° for 20 minutes or until heated through. Sprinkle with additional cheese if desired.


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So I offered her some Imitrex: "No! That's a migraine drug! I don't want that on my insurance record! That will raise my rates!"
So I recommended pain meds and/or muscle relaxants: "No! I've worked for insurance companies! If they see that on my record, I'll NEVER be able to get insurance! Ever!"
So I suggested she try physical therapy: "No! Never! Once they see I've been to physical therapy, I'll never be able to get coverage!"
Okay, Whatever.
Two issues, ma'am:
1. If you are so afraid of your insurance company finding out about your health, THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE, USING YOUR POLICY IN THE FIRST PLACE?
2. I'm pretty sure that your 3-PACK-A-DAY cigarette habit is going have a bigger impact on your health and premiums than ANY of my treatments ever will.
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Tourism–Hawkins Cove
Hawkins Cove is a place of rare beauty and history. The trail that leads visitors into the area is part of an old railroad bed. The railroad that followed this trail ran from Cowan, Sewanee, Monteagle, Tracy City, Gruetli-Laager, and Palmer as it hauled coal and timber form the mountain into Cowan.
In Cowan, the materials from the train would then be transferred to a train headed from Nashville to Chattanooga. The two trains crossed with the train coming from the mountain passing above the Nashville-Chattanooga line.
The Hawkins Cove Natural Area is one of the newest additions to the South Cumberland Recreation Area. Hawkins Cove consists of 262 acres. It was set aside in 1985 to protect the rare Cumberland Rosin Weed. Today many endangered species of plant and wildlife call Hawkins Cove home.


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Hi guys,
I am back in the game after 1 year break, and finding it exciting again...don't know for how long though.
I started a new character on a new server and i am currently level 75 and 4h place in arena, with good prospects for 2nd place.
I see there is again an even with commander DNAs in the shop. I don't know what the current meta of the game is, so i have some questions for you:
1. I can get Raksha for 11700 credits (2 DNA with 10% discount). Is he still a viable commander, and is he a viable one at my level? Is he too expensive to get now, should i wait for another type of event where i can get it for a cheaper price?
2. I can also get Cryptor, Alfred or Retrobot....any of them any good still? Currently i have only Cabal and Hunter...and i bought only one silver month card...don't want to invest more than that..
3. Should i wait for one of the commanders in the next 2 days? do you have any recommendations for a good commander in my price range and level?
Thanks in advance for your advices.


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Mitt Romney may want to reconsider his campaign strategy involving the pint-size voters of tomorrow.
The Republican presidential candidate skipped the chance to take part in Nickelodeon's "Kids Pick the President" special that includes President Barack Obama, said Linda Ellerbee, the show's host and executive producer. The decision "disses" children, she said.
During last week's presidential debate, Romney vowed to cut federal funding for PBS while acknowledging it's the home of popular "Sesame Street" character Big Bird.
"Kids Pick the President: The Candidates," with videotaped questions for the candidates from youngsters nationwide, debuts Oct. 15 on the children's channel. Afterward, an online poll asks kids to make their pick.
Romney's campaign said "he simply didn't have time. He couldn't fit it in his schedule," Ellerbee said Monday.
His decision is disappointing because "answering kids' questions directly shows respect for the several million kids who will vote in Nickelodeon's 'Kids Pick the President' campaign," she said.
"That's several million kids who actually want to get involved in the democratic process," Ellerbee said. "They don't deserve to be dissed. But former Gov. Romney also blew off Letterman and Big Bird, so I guess we're in good company."
The Romney campaign did not immediately respond to email and phone requests for comment.
Since 1992, when Nickelodeon began airing the Q&As, only two other candidates have declined to take part, Ellerbee said: Democratic contender John Kerry said no in 2004, which prompted President George W. Bush to withdraw. Bush participated in 2000.
The online kids' polling has gotten the outcome right five out of six times, including Bush's re-election in 2004, Ellerbee said. Democratic contender Al Gore was the children's pick in 2000.
"It's not always that Democrats win" the poll, she said. "It's not that we're some left-wing show and that's the only kids that watch us."
Nickelodeon has been in touch with Romney's representatives since April and they had been "encouraging" about prospects for the former Massachusetts governor's involvement, Ellerbee said.
The candidate has until Monday to reverse his decision, she said.
An Obama campaign spokesman jumped on Romney's decision when asked for comment, saying, "It's no surprise Romney decided to play hooky" and jabbing at the GOP candidate over education and PBS funding.
"Unfortunately for Mitt Romney, 'The dog ate my homework' just doesn't cut it when you're running for president," spokesman Adam Fetcher said in a statement.
For the special, Obama fielded questions regarding gun control, jobs, illegal immigration, same-sex marriage and bullying. He also was asked about his most embarrassing moment, Nickelodeon said.
"Running into the wall is par for the course for me," the president replied. "I'm running into doors and desks all the time."


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Yes, with Nokia 3 you can use VPN.
Nokia 3 is a true 4G VoLTE phone.
Nokia 3 is a dual sim mobile phone.
Yes, Nokia 3 does have 3.5 mm music jack.
Nokia 3 and OPPO A37 both are available almost at same price. But here we will show you which one is better for you.
OPPO A37 and Nokia 3 both have 5-Inch HD IPS display. Both offers the similar resolution of 1280 x 720 resolution and 294 PPI. Both mobiles have got the Gorilla glass protection and have 2.5D curved glass design.
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Both phones have 2GB RAM and 16GB Internal Memory but Nokia 3 does have dedicated memory card slot while OPPO A37 has the hybrid sim slot.
Both phones have got an 8MP rear camera. but OPPO A37 has BSI sensor in the rear camera while Nokia 3 does not have BSI sensor in the rear camera. In addition, OPPO A37 does have the 5P lense. Nokia 3 will not allow you to capture full HD videos while you will be able to capture full HD videos with the help of OPPO A37.
But, Nokia 3 is better if we consider front camera results. OPPO A37 has 5MP front camera while Nokia 3 has an 8MP front camera. In addition, Nokia 3 also has BSI sensor in the front camera and has got 84-degree wide lens.
Nokia 3 has Mediatek Quad Core processor while OPPO A37 has Qualcomm Quad core processor.
Nokia 3 has 2650 mAh nonremovable battery while OPPO A37 has 2630 mAh nonremovable battery.
OPPO A37 has older 5.1 Android Lollipop OS while Nokia 3 comes with latest Android 7.0 Nougat OS.
The reason behind I have purchased this model was the brand name - Nokia. Nokia 3 is a good android mobile phone and a very decent buy if your budget is less than 10k. The build quality is superb and it is a perfect combination of metal and polycarbonate material. The metal grip ensures better grip over the phone. Display is not Full HD but it is quite impressive. When you use the phone under direct sunlight, at that time, you will feel the experience. You do not require to adjust the brightness and due to polarization impact, it provides a very crisp and vivid color reproduction. Camera is also good but the only problem is you cannot record Full HD videos. Maximum resolution in video recording is possible up to 720p only. Battery is decent. Since I have used the phone only for 2 days, really cannot comment on the battery life but I wish it will be as good as Nokia brand name.
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It is my first nokia mobile phone and second android smart phone. I find Nokia 3 Android mobile is better than Samsung android mobile. The phone is looking good and display is very clear especially during day time. Battery performance is ok types. Overall, Nokia 3 is a good phone.
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It may look like one of the best cheap phones on the market but the Nokia 3 is style over substance, struggling with long load times and poor battery life.


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FFmpeg Filtering Guide
FFmpeg has access to many filters and more are added on a regular basis. To see what filters are available with your build see ffmpeg -filters.
Refer to the FFmpeg documentation for each filters' documentation and examples. This wiki page is for user contributed examples and tips.
Contributions to this page are encouraged.
Starting with something simple. Resize a 640x480 input to a 320x240 output.
ffmpeg -i input -vf scale=iw/2:-1 output
iw is input width. In this example the input width is 640. 640/2 = 320. The -1 tells the scale filter to preserve the aspect ratio of the output, so in this example the scale filter will choose a value of 240. See the FFmpeg documentation for additional information.
Speed up your video
See How to speed up / slow down a video for syntax (the setpts filter)/time lapse etc.
Filtergraph,Chain,Filter relationship
What follows the -vf in an ffmpeg command line is a Filtergraph description. This filtergraph may contain a number of chains, each of which may contain a number of filters.
Whilst a full filtergraph description can be complicated, it is possible to simplify it for simpler graphs provided ambiguity is avoided.
Remembering that filters in a chain are separated by commas "," chains by a semicolon ";" and that if an input or output is not specified it is assumed to come from the preceding or sent to the following item in the chain.
The following are equivalent:-
ffmpeg -i input -vf [in]scale=iw/2:-1[out] output ffmpeg -i input -vf scale=iw/2:-1 output # the input and output are implied without ambiguity
As are:-
ffmpeg -i input -vf [in]yadif=0:0:0[middle];[middle]scale=iw/2:-1[out] output # 2 chains form, one filter per chain, chains linked by the [middle] pad ffmpeg -i input -vf [in]yadif=0:0:0,scale=iw/2:-1[out] output # 1 chain form, with 2 filters in the chain, linking implied ffmpeg -i input -vf yadif=0:0:0,scale=iw/2:-1 output # the input and output are implied without ambiguity
multiple input overlay in 4x4 grid
Here four inputs are filtered together using the -filter_complex option. In this case all of the inputs are "-f lavfi -i testsrc" but could be other inputs. Within the filtergraph the first input is padded to the right and bottom by double its height and the other three inputs are individually filtered using hflip, negate, and edgedetect. The overlay filter is then used multiple times to arrange of latter three inputs on top of the first one. The offsets used in the overlay filter arrange the inputs into a grid shape.
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc -f lavfi -i testsrc -f lavfi -i testsrc -f lavfi -i testsrc -filter_complex "[0:0]pad=iw*2:ih*2[a];[1:0]negate[b];[2:0]hflip[c];[3:0]edgedetect[d];[a][b]overlay=w[x];[x][c]overlay=0:h[y];[y][d]overlay=w:h" -y -c:v ffv1 -t 5 multiple_input_grid.avi
Escaping characters
As described in the documentation, it can be necessary to escape commas "," that need to appear in some arguments, for example the select filter:-
ffmpeg -i input -vf select='eq(pict_type\,I)' output #to select only I frames
However an alternative, which also allows for white space within the filtergraph, and which may assist in clarity of reading complex graphs, is to enclose the whole filtergraph within double quotes " " thus:-
ffmpeg -i input -vf "select=eq(pict_type,I)" output #to select only I frames ffmpeg -i input -vf "yadif=0:-1:0, scale=iw/2:-1" output # deinterlace then resize
Note that the examples given in the documentation mix and match the use of "full quoting" and "\" escaping, and that use of unusual shells may upset escaping.
Burnt in Timecode
PAL 25fps non drop frame
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/DroidSans.ttf: timecode='09\:57\:00\:00': r=25: \ x=(w-tw)/2: y=h-(2*lh): fontcolor=white: box=1: boxcolor=0x00000000@1" -an -y out.mp4
NTSC 30fps drop frame
(change the : to a ; before the frame count)_________________________________________________________ \ ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/DroidSans.ttf: timecode='09\:57\:00\;00': r=30: \ x=(w-tw)/2: y=h-(2*lh): fontcolor=white: box=1: boxcolor=0x00000000@1" -an -y out.mp4
Scripting your command line parameters
If building complex filtergraphs the command line can get very messy so it can help to break things down into manageable pieces. However one needs to be careful when joining them all together to avoid issues due to your shell and escaped characters.
The following example shows a sample bash script containing a filtergraph of one chain with three filters; yadif, scale and drawtext.
#!/bin/bash # ffmpeg test script path="/path/to/file/" in_file="in.mp4" out_file="out.mp4" cd $path filter="-vf \"yadif=0:-1:0, scale=400:226, drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/DroidSans.ttf: \ text='tod- %X':x=(w-text_w)/2:y=H-60 :fontcolor=white :box=1:boxcolor=0x00000000@1\"" codec="-vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 700k -r 25 -maxrate 700k -bufsize 5097k" command_line="ffmpeg -i $in_file $filter $codec -an $out_file" echo $command_line eval $command_line exit
Note that the double quotes " around the whole filtergraph have been escaped \" and the filtergraph spans more than one line, the echo command shows the full command as it is executed. Useful for debugging.
The eval invocation of the $command_line variable is required to avoid loss of the embedded escaped quotes which occurs if it is absent. Other shells may behave differently.
List of Filters
Filters bundled with libavfilter as of 3.15.102 (as configured with --enable-gpl). Filters relying on external libraries, such as frei0r, are not listed here. remember, you can get documentation for each on the ffmpeg documentation page, for instance aconvert's documentation, etc.
aconvert A->A Convert the input audio to sample_fmt:channel_layout. afifo A->A Buffer input frames and send them when they are requested. aformat A->A Convert the input audio to one of the specified formats. amerge |->A Merge two audio streams into a single multi-channel stream. amix |->A Audio mixing. anull A->A Pass the source unchanged to the output. aresample A->A Resample audio data. asetnsamples A->A Set the number of samples for each output audio frames. asetpts A->A Set PTS for the output audio frame. asettb A->A Set timebase for the audio output link. ashowinfo A->A Show textual information for each audio frame. asplit A->| Pass on the audio input to N audio outputs. astreamsync AA->AA Copy two streams of audio data in a configurable order. atempo A->A Adjust audio tempo. channelmap A->A Remap audio channels. channelsplit A->| Split audio into per-channel streams earwax A->A Widen the stereo image. join |->A Join multiple audio streams into multi-channel output pan A->A Remix channels with coefficients (panning). silencedetect A->A Detect silence. volume A->A Change input volume. volumedetect A->A Detect audio volume. aevalsrc |->A Generate an audio signal generated by an expression. anullsrc |->A Null audio source, return empty audio frames. abuffersink A->| Buffer audio frames, and make them available to the end of the filter graph. anullsink A->| Do absolutely nothing with the input audio. ffabuffersink A->| Buffer audio frames, and make them available to the end of the filter graph. alphaextract V->V Extract an alpha channel as a grayscale image component. alphamerge VV->V Copy the luma value of the second input into the alpha channel of the first input. bbox V->V Compute bounding box for each frame. blackdetect V->V Detect video intervals that are (almost) black. blackframe V->V Detect frames that are (almost) black. boxblur V->V Blur the input. colormatrix V->V Color matrix conversion copy V->V Copy the input video unchanged to the output. crop V->V Crop the input video to width:height:x:y. cropdetect V->V Auto-detect crop size. decimate V->V Remove near-duplicate frames. delogo V->V Remove logo from input video. deshake V->V Stabilize shaky video. drawbox V->V Draw a colored box on the input video. edgedetect V->V Detect and draw edge. fade V->V Fade in/out input video. fieldorder V->V Set the field order. fifo V->V Buffer input images and send them when they are requested. format V->V Convert the input video to one of the specified pixel formats. fps V->V Force constant framerate framestep V->V Select one frame every N frames. gradfun V->V Debands video quickly using gradients. hflip V->V Horizontally flip the input video. hqdn3d V->V Apply a High Quality 3D Denoiser. hue V->V Adjust the hue and saturation of the input video. idet V->V Interlace detect Filter. lut V->V Compute and apply a lookup table to the RGB/YUV input video. lutrgb V->V Compute and apply a lookup table to the RGB input video. lutyuv V->V Compute and apply a lookup table to the YUV input video. mp V->V Apply a libmpcodecs filter to the input video. negate V->V Negate input video. noformat V->V Force libavfilter not to use any of the specified pixel formats for the input to the next filter. null V->V Pass the source unchanged to the output. overlay VV->V Overlay a video source on top of the input. pad V->V Pad input image to width:height[:x:y[:color]] (default x and y: 0, default color: black). pixdesctest V->V Test pixel format definitions. removelogo V->V Remove a TV logo based on a mask image. scale V->V Scale the input video to width:height size and/or convert the image format. select V->V Select frames to pass in output. setdar V->V Set the frame display aspect ratio. setfield V->V Force field for the output video frame. setpts V->V Set PTS for the output video frame. setsar V->V Set the pixel sample aspect ratio. settb V->V Set timebase for the video output link. showinfo V->V Show textual information for each video frame. slicify V->V Pass the images of input video on to next video filter as multiple slices. smartblur V->V Blur the input video without impacting the outlines. split V->| Pass on the input video to N outputs. super2xsai V->V Scale the input by 2x using the Super2xSaI pixel art algorithm. swapuv V->V Swap U and V components. thumbnail V->V Select the most representative frame in a given sequence of consecutive frames. tile V->V Tile several successive frames together. tinterlace V->V Perform temporal field interlacing. transpose V->V Transpose input video. unsharp V->V Sharpen or blur the input video. vflip V->V Flip the input video vertically. yadif V->V Deinterlace the input image. cellauto |->V Create pattern generated by an elementary cellular automaton. color |->V Provide an uniformly colored input. life |->V Create life. mandelbrot |->V Render a Mandelbrot fractal. mptestsrc |->V Generate various test pattern. nullsrc |->V Null video source, return unprocessed video frames. rgbtestsrc |->V Generate RGB test pattern. smptebars |->V Generate SMPTE color bars. testsrc |->V Generate test pattern. buffersink V->| Buffer video frames, and make them available to the end of the filter graph. ffbuffersink V->| Buffer video frames, and make them available to the end of the filter graph. nullsink V->| Do absolutely nothing with the input video. concat |->| Concatenate audio and video streams. showspectrum A->V Convert input audio to a spectrum video output. showwaves A->V Convert input audio to a video output. amovie |->| Read audio from a movie source. movie |->| Read from a movie source. buffer |->V Buffer video frames, and make them accessible to the filterchain. abuffer |->A Buffer audio frames, and make them accessible to the filterchain. buffersink_old V->| Buffer video frames, and make them available to the end of the filter graph. abuffersink_old A->| Buffer audio frames, and make them available to the end of the filter graph.
Other Filters
Other filters created by users:
- https://github.com/indiefan/FFmpeg-Filters an updated vf_fade filter.
Other Filter Examples
- Fancy Filtering Example -- Examples for various psychedelic effects and other weird filtering
Developing your own Filters
- http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_filter_howto has a guide for developing your own filters.
Basically, you can follow the examples given of the existing filters, which helps a lot, as well.
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I recently turned 43 years old. No mid-life crisis but I have been certainly looking at things a bit different – more a long the lines of what is most important in my life. Family of course ranks right up there as #1. This is one of the reasons I need to streamline things on my websites. I have 9 and 13 year old sons. I need to spend more time with them. My wife? Well, she's lucky to have me, right?
I have never been a church-going person. When I was a teenager I was a member of a church in Greensboro, NC. I liked it. I moved away and never regained that connection. Over the past month I have been attending a relatively new church in my area and really, really like it. It seems to be a very special place. Over the past several years I have felt a void in my life. I think that to fill that void – I need a greater connection to God. It's happening and I am glad. It is also important for my kids as well.
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Ask not for whom the Tobin tolls ...
The state begins its new toll-plaza-less tolling system on the Tobin tomorrow. Drivers with EZ-Pass transponders will have $2.50 added to their bill for every inbound trip. Drivers without the transponders will have their license plates photographed and scanned and a bill for $3 will go to the registered owner of the vehicle for each trip.
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Don't forget, EZ-Pass also
Don't forget, EZ-Pass also sells gift certificates. They make great gifts for the holidays, birthdays or even graduations. Again,be sure to buy your loved ones an EZ-Pass gift certificate.
i got my gf one for her
i got my gf one for her birthday but i dont think she appreciated how valuable a gift it really was :shrug:
Lost Tolls
I'd be curious to see how many people with out-of-state plates just ignore the toll letters and if the lost revenue from these people equals the amount saved by not having toll booths. Does the Commonwealth even have an automated way of getting a mailing address for plates from the other 49 states?
I'm in favor of the plan but it seems like this will be even more encouragement for people to not register their cars in the state.
If states enter into compacts with Massachusetts by which vehicles cannot have their registrations renewed unless the bills are paid. New Hampshire has open tolling, and Maine and I believe Rhode Island have EZ Pass, so are we going to see an uptick of Connecticut and Vermont registered vehicles?
I'm sure there are a number
I'm sure there are a number of states that share information with one another. I have a friend that had a terrible girlfriend that he moved up here from Florida. The girl was unable to renew or apply for her license in Massachusetts because of unpaid tolls from Florida.
Back in Florida she had to get around but couldn't afford to tolls, so she blew through the tolls repeatedly and amassed a few thousand dollars in tolls and fees.
Most states already share
Most states already share access to plate databases. This is how out of state cops can run your plates. If this weren't the case it would be virtually impossible to do things like track stolen cars.
Even some Canadian provinces share their plate databases with US states. If you go to Ontario and drive their 407 toll road with MA plates you'll still get a bill.
However, they may not issue bills until after multiple uses to reduce costs.
I'm sure any lost revenue
I'm sure any lost revenue that does occur will be more than made up for by savings from not paying salaries and benefits to toll takers.
-1 for being able to travel anonymously...
I think it's BS to have to get your license plates scanned... an on top of that, having to pay a toll!
There are tunnels
You can also go I-93 to Rt. 99 to Rt. 16 east and back to 1.
for now...
Until they stick up these transoms over every major artery coming into or out of Boston. The idea is that we have to come up with some way for paying for our roads, other than the gas tax - a real user fee. Tolls can work that way and this trial on the Tobin Bridge is meant to be emulated on as many roads as possible around here. And it looks like the Feds may relent and allow tolls on some of the major highways.
Aside from raising revenue the additional benefit (from the pols' perspective) is making the commute into Boston a little more fair and stopping the incessant whining from Metrowest commuters about having to pay tolls when people from the north and south don't have to (they somehow conveniently forget that coming in to Boston down Route 1 or 1A results in tolls - and god knows people using the southeast expressway don't feel like they're getting away with anything driving that hot mess every day).
So this fiscal issue will also bring about further Big Brother monitoring of the citizenry as an unintended consequence....more reason to bike in.
Sorry, Mr. Tin Hat
You should have NO expectation of privacy when you're using a PUBLIC road.
tin hat?
You really don't need to be a looney conspiracy theorist to think that the govt (and the contractors they hire) are pushing towards "big data" applications to track everyone -- for security purposes but mostly for marketing purposes. To not care about it at all or to just assume that there is no privacy anywhere means you're either a pollyanna or you're admitting that you're so inconsequential in this world that no one would want to keep track of you in the first place.
The one thing I'm waiting for
The one thing I'm waiting for is the day they decide to start ticketing people for speeding based on travel estimations on the pike.
Well you traveled at an average of 77mph on the pike toll to toll, here is your speeding ticket.
Automated traffic enforcement
Automated traffic enforcement is against MA law and I don't see that changing soon.
Additionally, MA law requires police to measure your speed over at least a quarter mile using radar in order to legally issue you a ticket. The law does not currently provide for issuing tickets based on average speed between points without a cop measuring your speed at each point, and I don't see that changing anytime soon either.
Until the lawmakers determine
Until the lawmakers determine that it's in the better interests of the public to change the law. Police can't be everywhere at once in order to ensure that our drivers are safely traveling the roads of our fine state.
It's all about the public'$ $afety!
This theoretically could
This theoretically could happen, but hopefully there would be enough public outcry to make it a non-starter.
Not quite....
If you wanted to clock the speed of a vehicle, you should pace them for about a quarter mile. For radar and lidar you don't need to measure any distance and there is no law regarding those devices.
The only potential loss of
The only potential loss of privacy that could result from using E-ZPass is that someone in state government theoretically could, if so inclined, look up that a transponder registered to vehicle ###-AAA crossed the Tobin Bridge on X date. That's it. No information about who was in the vehicle, or where else it went.
I can't think of any reason that would be useful information to anyone.
Additionally, it is much easier for law enforcement to track your location by subpoenaing your cell phone data, or even obtaining a warrant to install a discreet tracking device on your car.
tl;dr E-ZPass is not an invasion of your privacy.
That information has been subpoenaed for divorce cases in NJ, where the courts had to sort out whether it should be available for civil matters.
That ship has sailed
"-1 for being able to travel anonymously..."
Many - by now, possibly most - police departments have license-plate scanners in all their patrol cars. The things scan every license plate they can see, and store the data in a central computer - permanently. Every time a cop car goes by your car, they record its having been there at that time. The worst part is that the database is maintained by a private company. How long before they decide to sell the information?
It looks like Boston suspended the use of the scanners, but there's no guarantee they won't go back to using them.
They have been taking photos of your license plates....
for a long time now. In theory, they can figure out who comes and goes from those photos (or the technology which just uploads them to a spreadsheet, much like a scanner would do).
On a side note, most Police departments would only have a few vehicles equipped with the scanners. They are about 10K a piece.
Is this a joke?
They've had pictures of you driving, your license plate, and the make/model of the car for years now whenever you go through any toll booth.
Cameras at tollbooths aren't exactly new technology. The only difference is they're going to actually do something with the information in order to keep us all moving much faster and basically uncork any kind of tollbooth bottleneck that used to exist on the Tobin.
Anyone use a prepaid card for this?
Or does EZ-Pass require a credit card which is not pre-paid or refillable?
you could just use a green
you could just use a green dot card fo shizzle
You can manually replenish
You can manually replenish your account by cash or check via mail or an RMV office.
lol look at this troll
lol look at this troll suggesting you spend more time than necessary in an rmv office
How is it trolling to suggest
How is it trolling to suggest a method for people without a credit card or checking account to still be able to benefit from E-ZPass?
it was an obvious joke &
it was an obvious joke & indictment of the rmv i thought
And the toll takers get their severance!
A banner day for all. Really.
hey maybe with the money the
hey maybe with the money the commonwealth will save from eliminating toll attendants, they can lower the tol- hahahahahaha
Recentl (7/18/14)y, the
Recentl (7/18/14)y, the Channel 5 investigative team looked into the problem of people not paying tolls.....
....... Team 5 Investigates has discovered the toll scofflaws owe $23,074,842 in unpaid tolls and fines dating back to 2002
Read more: http://www.wcvb.com/news/team-5-tens-of-millions-owed-to-massachusetts-b...
Plus most states do not share data at re-registration time, so as pointed out in the report Conn, drivers will not be penalized for money owed to Mass.
Would it make sense now to return to two-way tolling?
The state (and others, such as NY/NJ) adopted one-way tolling to reduce traffic backups. Now that tolls can be collected without stopping or slowing down traffic, why not charge $1.25/$1.50 each way instead of $2.50/$3.00 just one way?
They were supposed to
This was the original plan, so I'm not sure what changed that they decided against it. It does cut the capital cost of gantries, equipment, data storage, etc *almost* in half, but the result is MA-99 inbound being jammed up really bad in the morning.
two-way tolling
My understanding is that they are doing that with the Tobin. There will be a transom set up going out to hit people as they leave and the toll will be cut in half. At least that was what MassDOT said about a year ago.
Then again I think they also said that the panels in the Callahan Tunnel would be back up by now...
Would two-way tolling have to
Would two-way tolling have to wait until they can do the same at the Sumner/Callahan?


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Note to Campus From President William L. Fox
October 20, 2012
St. Lawrence Colleagues:
I write on behalf of the Board of Trustees to review discussions and action taken at the fall meeting this weekend.
Following a yearlong process that involved the entire campus community, the Board accepted a new Facilities Master Plan (FMP) that will guide the renewal, renovation and adaptation of our campus in the coming decades. The plan, which will remain a "living document," with changes and refinements expected in the many years to come, aligns support and use for physical space needs with teaching, learning and campus life. The resolution passed by the Board also directs that all Laurentian constituencies be involved to assess options, identify the resources and develop processes for its evolution and implementation.
Student housing is identified as a top priority, with the goal of adding space for about 150 new beds by fall 2014. Our planning consultants, Saratoga Associates and Beardsley Design Associates, working with the FMP Advisory Committee, have recommended several locations for the new residence hall, focusing on sites closer to the center of campus to avoid creating "suburbs" and to protect our "walking campus" and the sense of community that are hallmarks of St. Lawrence.
At the recommendation of the Architect Selection Committee, the University has engaged Sacco & McKinney Architects, P.C., of Latham, N.Y., to work with the committee and the campus to consider and evaluate the potential sites and design the new residence hall.
One location being considered is on the road and parking lot adjacent to the Quad, on its eastern perimeter across from the entrance to the Noble Center. A second possible site is on the road between the Quad and the Dean-Eaton residence hall. If one of these sites is selected, the project could include adding geothermal energy and reducing the pavement surrounding the Quad to add as much as 6 percent more green space, including enhanced landscaping.
The University also would work with the architects to ensure that the building fits the character of campus and that it maintains or enhances the views to landmark buildings surrounding the Quad.
A third site being considered is near Park Street, just west of Hepburn Hall. The Facilities Master Plan also recommends this site as a potential location for a future academic building to be completed in a second phase.
The University plans to select a site and begin design for the residence hall by the end of this semester. Construction could begin as early as May 2013.
The University plans to "pay as we go," raising money from donors for projects in the Facilities Master Plan that cannot be completed with annual capital funds. On that note, I am pleased to announce that the Class of 2013 has pledged its senior gift to support the construction of the new residence hall, and two trustees said this weekend they plan to support the project with gifts of $1 million each. This is a great start to our focused fundraising effort for the residence hall.
All implementation phases of the FMP will be planned in the context of the University's commitment to sustainability and in consultation with the campus community. We will plan several opportunities to discuss the new residence hall and other FMP projects in the coming months and years as we progress in our planning.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the FMP Advisory Committee and its co-chairs Larry French and Dan Seaman for their excellent work in guiding this process over the past year. The committee, which included faculty, students, staff, trustees and alumni, dedicated many long hours to this important project.
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To provide documentation requested by government organizations in the course of changing legal sex, what exactly does a transsexual announce, document, or certify? Isn't something as fundamental as sex relatively easy to document? As it turns out, it's not as simple as one would think, not only because "sex" can be defined in different ways (chromosomes, hormones, secondary sex characteristics, genitals), but because I don't think the requesting agencies have thought through just what they want to know, and therefore are not consistent in the documentation they request.
Bear in mind, we're talking strictly about legal change of sex, or erasing the letter "M" from my records and replacing it with the letter "F." The implications are mostly minor except for laws related to marriage and for health insurance. Everything else, including enabling various officials to identify people positively, is really irrelevant because what matters is how you look, what you call yourself, and how people know you, and these layers of knowledge work independently of whether you have the letter M or the letter F on your official documents.
Social Security is quite straightforward in saying that to correct the "sex" field in a person's record, the evidence needed is a "Sex-Change Operation: The surgeon or attending physician must provide a letter verifying the sex change surgery has been completed" (bold in the original). The Internal Revenue Service relies entirely on Social Security data, and thus have no separate procedure for changing name and sex.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) asks for one of the following (and I've explained in previous posts about conflicting information from them):
a) court order saying applicant has changed gender and/or letter from physician or clinical psychologist verifying that the applicant is undergoing treatment that has altered or will alter the gender,
b) court order saying either that applicant has changed gender or that individual's gender is male/female and a physician's statement clearly indicating that the individual is physically the gender noted on the court order
c) court order saying applicant has changed gender OR statement from a physician or clinical psychologist identifying the applicant by name and address or verifying that the applicant is undergoing treatment that has altered or will alter the applicant's gender.
For the Passport office, according to the NCTE,
"Sex change documentation consists of a letter from a surgeon or hospital that performed surgery and a detailed statement from a medical surgeon regarding the surgery. If your request of prior to surgery, the documentation consists of a detailed statement from a surgeon with whom you have plans to undergo surgery. This statement must outline the plans for your surgery. If you are traveling to undergo it, the passport agency will issue a temporary passport valid for one year."
Looking only at the federal government, there are two areas that interest me.
First is the authorizing party, or the one who documents a transsexual's change for the government.
- Passport Office = surgeon or hospital
- SSA=surgeon or attending physician
- FAA=physician, psychologist, or court
There is no doubt that these people or entities are authorities, but their specialties and their scope of knowledge hardly overlap. Surgeons cut patients. Hospitals and physicians treat patients. Psychologists listen to people and help them solve their problems. Courts resolve disputes and issue verdicts or orders. Nowhere in this list of authorities is any prerequisite of specializing in mental or physical issues related to sex or gender. The list assumes — but refuses to mention— such activities and knowledge. It's as if the words "sex-change" or "changing gender" are so widely known that there is no need to discuss what they mean in official regulations.
The second (and perhaps more interesting) issue is what, precisely, these parties are documenting or certifying. The social security's surgeon or attending physician is certifying that sex change surgery has been completed. The passport office's surgeon or hospital is documenting an outline of a plan for surgery or the nature of the completed surgery (of some sort, but it's not specified). The FAA's myriad authorities (physicians or psychologists) document treatment that has altered, or will alter, gender, or a statement that the applicant is the same gender as the application requests. The FFA uses "gender" exclusively, while social security and passport offices use "sex" exclusively. Does the federal government intend to use "sex" and "gender" in unique ways, or are they just being used interchangeably? Which is it, sex or gender?
Gender. Is it possible for someone to say objectively that someone is one gender or another? If the FAA means something like "Joyce presents herself full time as a female," then that's quite different from "Joyce had genital surgery." What does it mean for someone to alter their gender, and how long does "alter" imply? Does dressing in drag for a weekend, which certainly counts in my book as altering your gender, qualify? Or does the FAA mean to document that a person shifts permanently from masculine to androgynous? Since gender is both felt and expressed, how is anyone truly supposed to document a change in gender to the FAA?
Sex. My questions about sex are even thornier. Depending on how you define sex, it either is possible or it is impossible to change a person's sex. XX chromosomes will always be XX chromosomes, no matter how many surgeries one undergoes and no matter how many hormones one injects. But if we are talking about hormones, we could speak of a generally accepted range of hormones to define changing from one sex to the other, but this approach would eliminate tens of thousands of perfectly "normal" people with hormone imbalances. And what about intersex individuals who have chromosomes, hormones, and/or genitalia of both sexes? What about secondary sex characteristics? If you add or subtract breasts, does that count for changing sex? Perhaps, but tens of thousands of women undergo mastectomies, and are no less female after surgery, and lots of men develop gynecomastia (or man-boobs) and are legally no less male because of this change.
Since "surgery" is used in several legal requirements, what surgical procedures, precisely, constitute changing sex? Frustratingly, these procedures are not defined. Is this to be left to the applicant and his/her surgeon or physician? Would a feminizing nose job count (it's surgery undertaken to change one's sexual appearance, but is that the same thing as sex change surgery)? Would a FTM's mastectomy count (I certainly think so)? And speaking of breasts, what about a MTF's boob job (I don't see why not).
Or maybe the regulations mean to imply reproduction, and want to count castration (orchiectomy) and hysterectomy. If so, doesn't this sound a bit like eugenics? But ethical intentions aside, hundreds of thousands of sterilizations take place every year, and they do not constitute sex changes.
I suspect that what is unspoken is the requirement that the penis or vagina be modified, but whether the external genitalia need to be merely removed (penectomy/phallectomy, in the case of MTF's, and what? clitorectomy/clitoridectomy/vaginectomy? for FTM's?), or modified (vaginoplasty for MTF's and phalloplasty for FTMs) is unstated and unclear. With such major surgeries costing tens of thousands of dollars, taking the patient out of the workforce for months, I would think that their necessity would be more rigorously defended and more specifically defined as a prerequisite for federal change of sex.
Overall, I don't think they know. Does the government mean to imply genital reassignment as a prerequisite for erasing one letter and typing another? Or do they mean the obliteration of birth genitals? Or do they mean sterilization? Or secondary sex characteristics? Or generally accepted features of a target sex, like muscles, noses, beards, and skin?
If you're skeptical, you're shaking your head and saying, "Joyce, any fool knows what they mean — they mean sex change surgery," and I would agree with you that that's what they think they mean and what they're either stating plainly or implying. But "Sex Change Surgery" is not defined, and changing sex involves so much more than surgery, like beard removal, hormone treatment, hair transplants, that to focus strictly on genital surgery seems quite narrow. However, this narrow focus is not accompanied by a narrow definition, which is usually the hallmark of regulations, thus leaving everything implied and subject to interpretation and persuasion, and even passability or general aesthetics of the transsexual, which is a horrid thought.
Ultimately, I am not sure why the federal government is in the business of letters F or M. For transsexuals, the issue is personal, psychological, spiritual, and essential to our identity, and the state really has no business getting involved. I suspect we are probably just collateral damage from the much bigger marriage wars, with the Defense of Marriage Act and various other initiatives to define marriage definitively as one M and one F. What would happen if those M's and F's weren't authoritative, but were fluid? It would be impossible to define marriage as anything more than the wedding of two individuals, without the M or the F — but given today's climate, such a fluidity seems unthinkable.


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Update : 2 persons were indirectly killed by the quake as they suffered a heart attack.
Update April 23rd, 13:30 UTC : Some fires did occur from this earthquake from people cooking, however these were quickly extinguished.
Brick and concrete house damage remains as below. The 12 people with minor injuries have all been discharged from hospital.
Update April 23rd, 11:00 UTC : The houses of 9 families collapsed. 74 households (222 rooms) were severely damaged, 916 households (2748 rooms) slightly damaged.
Update April 23rd, 05:55 UTC : At least 12 people were injured by the quake. Furthermore, a small number of old, dilapidated buildings collapsed. Some dozen more were damaged. 316 people were displaced.
Update 22:06 UTC : Telephone communications were interrupted for approx. 5 minutes. The seismological bureau has warned the people that aftershocks may occur (they are alerting based on historic earthquake patterns). We expect a more detailed report from the seismological bureau tomorrow
Update 13:16 UTC : In a new intermediate report from the Inner Mongolia seismological bureau personnel on their way to the epicenter area reported that only cracks and open walls were seen. They also especially mentioned NO collapsed houses so far.
Update 12:47 UTC : Chinese social websites are spreading the rumor that a M6.5 earthquake will happen soon. People spreading these rumors and that way frightening other people should be punished by law. Earthquakes CANNOT be predicted, nor in Magnitude nor in time. The only resistance towards earthquakes is being prepared by strengthening your house and knowing what to do if it happens.
Update 12:38 UTC : According to a preliminary understanding of the Autonomous Region Seismological Bureau, the earthquake was clearly felt Chifeng City, Shenyang, Fuxin City, Tieling City, Changchun City and Siping City. Up to now, no casualties. Damage to buildings and houses in the epicentral area looks to be mild.
People in the earthquake zone report that they have felt 5 aftershocks so far.
Update 12:09 UTC : NO reports of substantial damage so far. Let's hope it will remain like this.
Update 10:49 UTC : The first reports we are getting from Tangliao City report no serious damage but only cracks in some walls BUT Tangliao City is not relevant as main damage potential area as this city is approx. 70 km from the epicenter. Earthquake-Report.com has called an area of 15 to 30 km radius which will have the most shaking risk.
Update 10:33 UTC : It would really surprise us if this earthquake would be harmless. We expect that the max. shaking in a radius of 15 km around the epicenter will be MMI V to MMVI (moderate to strong shaking). Older non earthquake resistant houses maybe suffering from todays earthquake.
Update 10:17 UTC : Chinese authorities have send 12 rescue and assessment teams to the epicenter area.
Update 10:05 UTC : We have to report a similar Magnitude earthquake which happened in 2003 with grim records. 4 people killed, 1000 injured and 7900 houses destroyed. These are the international data for a quake with an epicenter in this location. The epicenter is luckily far away from the present epicenter, but based on the topography the underground is very unstable in this region.
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Update 09:49 UTC : The earthquake was also well felt in Shenyang, approx. 100 km from the epicenter. Earthquake-Report.com calls this earthquake moderately dangerous for damage and injuries based on the Chinese seismological parameters.
Update 09:38 UTC : The earthquakes greater epicenter area is merely flat farming land which indicates a lot of soft soil. Slight damage cannot be excluded.
Based on The Chinese seismological data this earthquake was a M5.3 earthquake at a depth of only 6 km!
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12:17 p.m. | Updated
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state and possible presidential candidate, will publish a new book in 2014 about American foreign policy, her publisher, Simon & Schuster, said on Thursday morning.
The as-yet untitled book, according to a news release, will "use a number of dramatic moments during Secretary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State to frame her thoughts about the recent history of U.S. foreign policy and the urgent, ongoing need for American leadership in a changing world."
Among the topics she will touch on are the killing of Osama bin Laden and the overthrow of the Qaddafi regime in Libya. Mrs. Clinton has been under siege by Republicans critical of her handling of the Libyan conflict, and the killing of the American ambassador and three other Americans last year in Benghazi.
The book, tentatively scheduled for June next year, will also address many of Mrs. Clinton's signature topics like the critical role of women and girls in developing economies and could burnish her credentials for a presidential run in 2016, something she has been contemplating since leaving the state department two months ago.
Simon & Schuster did not disclose the terms of the deal. Mrs. Clinton reportedly received an $8 million advance for her 2003 memoir, "Living History." That book, however, addressed her feelings about her husband's extra-marital relationship with Monica Lewinsky. This book was not expected by people in the industry to earn that kind of advance.
Mrs. Clinton is the author of four previous books, all published by Simon & Schuster: "It Takes a Village" (1996), "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy" (1998), "An Invitation to the White House" (2000) and "Living History" (2003).


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